On the raw numbers, with 118.1 points conceded on average, as on those of efficiency, with 116.9 points taken on 100 possessions, the finding remains the same in Texas: Houston has the worst defense in the league.
The worst team in the Western Conference (15 wins, 43 losses) will thus experience an end to the season without issue, except that of preparing for next year. This is why Stephen Silas now wants to make defense a priority.
“I think the message we want to send for the last 24 games, on what can be improved”Announced the coach at Houston Chronicle. “I evaluated many things. We must play these 24 games with determination. I want us to be more consistent on defense, we take one game after another leaving, somehow, the 50 before matches behind us, to start from scratch and grasp new concepts. I want us to be a better defensive team in these 24 games. “
Christian Wood has got the message. “You have to be 110% in every game”Warns inside. “And try to win every game. It’s a big process of learning to win games, so it’s more important: winning as much as possible. I will try to bring defensively in the second half of the season. I focused on it during training. I am ready to defend more. “
Dennis Schröder has, in turn, spoke of “Create habits before and after matches to improve and do everything necessary to win in the NBA”.
The Rockets coach wants to use these last weeks of the 2021/2022 season to start the 2022/2023 season already.
“There is a dynamic that we can have to approach the off-season and then transfer it to the following season”recalls Silas. “There is the idea of a group that improves, which continues to progress and that feels good to end the season. That way, during the summer, there is little more juice. It can clearly bridge the gap between the end of the season and the start of the next. “
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Christian Wood | 47 | 30.9 | 48.4 | 36.8 | 61.9 | 1.7 | 8.7 | 10.4 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 17.7 |
| Eric Gordon | 43 | 29.7 | 49.2 | 42.9 | 75.7 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 14.3 |
| Jalen Green | 35 | 30.1 | 37.0 | 28.7 | 83.3 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 14.1 |
| Kevin Porter, Jr. | 33 | 30.1 | 38.3 | 35.4 | 64.2 | 0.7 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 6.2 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 13.3 |
| Jae’sean Tate | 48 | 27.1 | 50.2 | 30.5 | 69.5 | 1.7 | 3.9 | 5.6 | 3.1 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 3.7 | 12.5 |
| Garrison Mathews | 33 | 27.7 | 41.7 | 38.2 | 82.2 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 11.6 |
| Alperen Sengun | 42 | 17.9 | 48.5 | 27.7 | 69.8 | 1.7 | 2.9 | 4.5 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 2.8 | 8.6 |
| Daniel Theis | 26 | 22.5 | 46.9 | 29.1 | 67.5 | 1.2 | 3.8 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 8.4 |
| Kj Martin | 47 | 19.4 | 53.2 | 30.6 | 64.0 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 8.3 |
| Josh Christopher | 42 | 16.3 | 47.0 | 33.0 | 76.4 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 7.3 |
| Armoni Brooks | 38 | 17.3 | 35.8 | 31.0 | 84.2 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 6.6 |
| David Nwaba | 33 | 14.2 | 47.5 | 28.6 | 70.2 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 5.4 |
| Dj Augustine | 34 | 15.0 | 40.4 | 40.6 | 86.8 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 5.4 |
| Daniel House | 16 | 14.5 | 33.8 | 29.4 | 89.5 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 4.8 |
| Trevelin Queen | 8 | 8.6 | 44.8 | 36.4 | 100.0 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 4.6 |
| Daishen Nix | 8 | 8.4 | 65.0 | 42.9 | 33.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 3.8 |
| Usman Garuba | 15 | 7.0 | 33.3 | 15.4 | 50.0 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.3 |
